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• Sunday, November 4, 2007 11:20 AM

  Playing in a band

  Imagine you are in a band. You aren't the beatles or even the Dave Mathews Band. You don't get paid much, but you play clubs and are pretty good and you think you are pretty cool.

  Then someone starts a movement to have non-musicians start "bands" of triangle playing morons who come on stage and play the triangle and do so to some patronizing applause. Why not jump on stage and shake a tamborine and call it playing music and have people applaud? It is health positive and a good way to work off stress.

  This movement becomes so prevalent that the meaning of "being in a band" becomes "being a non-musician who makes noise on a stage like a retard for patronizing applause."

  Ofcourse real rock bands don't care since no one is confusing them with the new movement.

  I'm sure Kenyan marathon winners don't sweat 6 hour marathoner either.

  But for amature or semi-pro band members, the new phenomenon would kind of take some of the ego gratification out of claiming to be in a band, wouldn't it.

  Maybe you think its tacky to want to brag about being a marathoner and bitching when fat slobs ruin if for you. YOu have to realize that even people who love doing something for its own sake, still want to feel cool when they identify themselves by their hobby.

  Amature marathoners can't do that anymore and it sucks for them.

  —neilpaul Read neilpaul's other letters
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